too larry
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I was 7 1/2 novels in when I stopped. Each 400-500 {double spaced} pages.
Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?
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Dr.Amber Trichome
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Do you live in Eugene?
TwistItUp
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TwistItUp
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Never even been there.
too larry
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My old laptop died, but I had lots of good book sites that I used. I was reading a lot of BLM and national park crime then. Box and Anna {something with a P}.
I basically read everything they had that was in my wheelhouse, so I started in the A's with westerns and just went down the stacks. Some of the writing was so bad, I figured I could do as well as they were, so that is what got me started writing. {this was when I had stopped growing and smoking, so I had time to kill}
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Which library did you return the Scar face dvd to?
TwistItUp
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Beale Memorial Library, in Bakersfield Ca.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Lol, I was thinking about moving to Bakersfield once for the cheap rent. Then I visited and couldn’t believe what a polluted shit hole it was and passed it up . I read reviews about how sick people were getting living there and the high rate of cancer.
Removed quite a few glioblastomas, a particularly nasty form of astrocytoma grade iv, from anabolic-androgenic steroid users.
inDC4now
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I buy from used bookstores all the time. I use https://www.abebooks.com/ This is a group of thousands of used book sellers, most in the states but dozens of countries too. That Truman Capote book in hard cover would cost $3.59 with free shipping.
BarnBuster
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Biblio.com is another one I have used in the past.
Also this place pastpaper.com if you want any old magazines or newspapers. When I was into reading about WW2, I ordered many Nat Geo maps in the 30's/40's about the war. Reasonable and fast delivery
BarnBuster
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"A growing number of public libraries across the country are revising their policies to eliminate overdue fines"
www.npr.org
Plenty of volunteer chores (reading to school kids, the elderly, hospital patients) they could do to pay off fines.
'We Wanted Our Patrons Back' — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity
"There were families that couldn't afford to pay the fines and therefore couldn't return the materials," Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said. "So then we just lost them as patrons."
www.npr.org
Plenty of volunteer chores (reading to school kids, the elderly, hospital patients) they could do to pay off fines.
too larry
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That is a good idea. You know the % of the operating budget that comes from late fees has to be really small."A growing number of public libraries across the country are revising their policies to eliminate overdue fines"
'We Wanted Our Patrons Back' — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity
"There were families that couldn't afford to pay the fines and therefore couldn't return the materials," Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said. "So then we just lost them as patrons."
Plenty of volunteer chores (reading to school kids, the elderly, hospital patients) they could do to pay off fines.
Sister had me drop off a book at our local branch when she left for Denver. That good deed cost me a dime. They do have a late fee forgiveness month, but I don't remember which one it is.
Roger A. Shrubber
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you can always just take them back and drop them off...you can't check out any more books till you pay the fine, but they aren't going to wrestle you to the ground and force the late fee out of you, and they'd have the books back to loan out to others...
too larry
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So far that has only happened when I was talking in a quiet library. lol
I lost two books out of the Jackson County Library. They kept rechecking them to me for months. I almost paid for them, but finally found them in my library.
Rob Roy
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I wonder if the cop arresting this guy for library fees, said "book em" at the station ? That would be just mean.
